[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
I signed up for verizon when I got the S3, they gave me a 32 gig version for $250 total with a new 2-year contract.

I was down in west virginia and wasn't a t-mobile tower for many, many miles - no data coverage, needed data for work, and t-mo cut me off at 40 mb roaming data. As in, no more data services off network, period.

Unacceptable to be left in a place i've never been with no maps, no access to the documents and scheduling I need for work, and in danger of termination from employment due to not having a smart phone.

(well, had one, but without data services my employer can't tell)

So I solved the problem as decisively as possible - verizon has the largest amount of coverage in the united states, and a policy of no roaming in the continental US - period.

When t-mo started offering a real unlimited data plan, I upgraded my account to that, and float both.

I'm home now, so in range of t-mo and the data access is nice, if painfully slow compared to verizon LTE - gods verizon is fast.

If I had to drop one service, and tower access wasn't a factor, t-mo would be gone in a heartbeat. Even though verizon is more expensive, the value on that price difference is worth every penny.

For navigation n a vehicle, the screen size is a huge benefit, and was actually my deciding factor in purchasing the S3.

I travel interstate a lot, hundreds upon hundreds of miles over unknown territory one way consistently, so being in an unfamiliar area it's helpful.

I also went and got an otterbox defender - damn thing is huge but at least it'll help prevent shattering the screen for a third time on it.

Me too, i'd love another keyboard phone. Sucks to hear about your thoughts on the relay, i've come to value your opinion in this regard based on how closely what matters to you relates to what matters to me.

I did mostly solve the on-screen virtual keyboard by getting a real one, but it tops out at about 70 words per minute and you can't use it in bright light.

Still, I don't track with fake stuff, and something to be said about real things.

As a work device, I can look past the deficiancies in the S3, and it's a badass device for playing ingress on - especially with the hyperion battery. (shame that doesn't work with the otterbox)

Otherwise though, not too impressed with it if it was my only android, or my day to day device for personal use.

And the camera blows donkey nuts. Even as a work device, I still take the doubleshot to work with me due to the level of pictures I need to snap on the job. The S3 won't yield pics of usable quality for reports and training materials I create.

(so okay, the S3 is about 90% good for a work device, still rely on the doubleshot even after all this time to get the job done right.)

---------- Post added at 02:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ----------

Yea, nothing really compares to the doubleshot camera from ease of use & quality of product.

I definitely have tried everything with the S3 - from the settings it has to the way it takes pictures, and studied and practiced photography techniques to try and compensate.

It's just not there. lackluster hardware with poor software behind it. Shame.

They did get enough right on the S3 that I guess I can look past this, but if I didn't have the doubleshot to fall back on it'd be a different story.